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IEBlog:
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Now Available — We're excited to release IE8 Beta 2 today for public download. You can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8. Please try it out! — You'll find versions for 32- and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008.
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GottaBeMobile, LiveSide, TechSpot, Spyware Sucks, internetnews.com, TechBlog, Microsoft Watch, WebGuild, Business Technology, I4U News, The Tech Report, eWEEK.com, Microsoft News Tracker, TECH.BLORGE.com, Security Bytes, BetaNews, Hardware 2.0, Digital Daily, SEO and Tech Daily and WinBeta
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Transcoding Is Not A Crime, Says Court In Veoh Porn Case — Update: More analysis of the decision here. — Finally, a judge who may have actually visited the Internet once or twice before deciding a case. Judge Howard Lloyd, a judge on the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California …
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Bloomberg Runs Steve Jobs' Obituary — For whatever reason, the Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary today. It's true that the secretive Apple CEO's battle with pancreatic cancer, and speculation over his health, rattled some investors earlier …
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
It must be a rough day in Cupertino — They just keep coming, one negative headline after another after another. At least that's how it must feel today over at Apple. In the last 24 hours or so, there have been at least four separate events that have put the company in a negative light.
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Forbes
Wall Street Journal:
More Artists Steer Clear of iTunes — Apple's Online Music Store Sells Lots of Singles, — But Labels Seek Higher Profits of Full Album Sales — ITunes has been the runaway hit of the music business, selling more than five billion song downloads since it started five years ago.
David Pogue / New York Times:
New Nikon Holds a Secret — If you saw it just sitting there, you'd never guess that the new Nikon D90 is a mind-blowing, game-changing camera. — It looks like any other big, black intermediate single-lens reflex camera: much more compact than a professional model, but much bigger and heavier than a pocket camera.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
iPods, MacBooks, iMacs up next on Apple's 2008 roadmap — With a multinational iPhone 3G launch now successfully under its belt, electronics maker Apple Inc. is preparing to close out the year with a final phase of product introductions that will stretch over the course of the next two months.
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MacRumors
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Why can't they fix the Flash/Firefox bug? — An annoying and long-lived bug is preventing some users from viewing Web videos. There's a workaround, but for many, the cure is as bad as the disease. — The bug is that Flash videos don't play for certain Firefox 3 users on Windows XP or Vista …
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InfoWorld
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
BackType, A Twitter For Comments — BackType is the newest YCombinator startup to launch from their summer program. They're a blog-comment focused startup - founders Christoper Golda and Michael Montano are for the first time aggregating all comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream.
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Profy, Mark Evans, cruel to be kind, louisgray.com, StartupNorth, Laughing Squid and The Inquisitr
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
UK Band Admits It's ‘Utterly Dependent’ On Piracy — from the except-they-call-it-viral-promotion dept — At some point, it won't make sense to post these sorts of examples any more because it will just be common sense that bands can and do benefit from so-called “piracy,” …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Industry Rethinks Moneymaking Software Practice — SAN FRANCISCO — Before they ship PCs to retailers like Best Buy, computer makers load them up with lots of free software. For $30, Best Buy will get rid of it for you. — That simple cleanup service is threatening the precarious economics of the personal computer industry.
Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Sony's Thinnest Walkman Player Ever Has Active Noise Cancellation, Song Suggestion Software — Sony's S-series Walkman is their new high-end digital audio player that is not only their slimmest player to date, but has active noise cancellation and the SensMe music suggestion engine.
New York Magazine:
CONFIRMED: Aaron Sorkin Creates Facebook Page, Writing Facebook Movie — Aaron Sorkin, a man whose discomfort with the Internet goes way, way back to the days he got angry at the Television Without Pity message boards, is writing a movie about the founding of Facebook.
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Voices, Valleywag, L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Social, Blog World Expo Blog, VentureBeat, Portfolio.com and Industry Standard
Bob Sullivan / The Red Tape Chronicles:
‘Forgot your password?’ may be weakest link — Almost everyone forgets a Web site password once in a while. When you do, you click on the familiar “Forgot your password?” link and, after entering your pet's name, identifying your high school mascot or answering some other seemingly obscure questions …
Mike Yuen / Edge Online:
Prepare for the Digital Distribution Era — As the debate over the future of the console wages on, the gaming community continues to look for the latest trends that will give one of the leading consoles the edge to push ahead of the pack. — However, some gaming enthusiasts have taken …
Paul Buchheit / FriendFeed Blog:
Simple Update Protocol: Fetch updates from feeds faster — When you add a web site like Flickr or Google Reader to FriendFeed, FriendFeed's servers constantly download your feed from the service to get your updates as quickly as possible. FriendFeed's user base has grown quite a bit since launch …
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Google Blogoscoped, Profy, webmonkey, Simon Willison's Weblog, ben barren, The Inquisitr and Tech Confidential
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Mary Kathleen Flynn / Tech Confidential:EXCLUSIVE: FriendFeed readying RSS accelerator
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Valleywag, Kevin Burton's NEW FeedBlog, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat and Randy Holloway Unfiltered
